“Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist.”

— Billy Wilder

David Ben-Gurion, as quoted in Israel : Years of Crisis Years of Hope (1973) by Roman Frister, p. 45
Misattributed

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American filmmaker 1906–2002

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